crazy rookie number stat
- Thread starter Demarcus Cousins
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Well I've long since left the fray, but back in the day I always thought Sacramentans were a bunch of idiots when it came to baseball. There were two Bay Area teams to choose from, and one of them kept on winning World Series but couldn't get any love, while the other came to be Cubs west, with an annual parade of pathetically overrated players playing boring baseball. Now of course much of that changed once the Big Cheat started swatting things out of the park (ironically exposed by the former Big Cheat who had helped start the trend across the bay), but it was still an utter myhstery to me why Sacramentans, with no reasonable claims on their affections by either team, would support the seemingly entitled losing franchise rather than the scrappy underbudgeted little guys across the bay who always seemed to find a way.
This past fall I suppose renders that all moot, at least for the bandwagony crowd. But it always bugged me.
I don't know that many people who are baseball fans anyway, so I guess I never noticed one way or another. My dad was always a Giants fan though because he likes the National League so that's one possible explanation. The other would be that casual sports fans are more likely to identify with recognizable stars (Jeter, ARod, Bonds) than whoever plays on the local team and the A's don't have a lot of stars these days. When I was growing up I always saw far more basketball jerseys for other team's players (Jordon, Stockton, Barkley, etc) than Kings jerseys. That changed a little bit when the Kings started winning but I moved away then so I don't know if it's like that now.
But anyway, the Giants have been big losers since they came to SF while the A's have been to 6 World Series in that span and won 4 of them. The A's came very close to having a baseball monopoly in Northern California and then PacBell/At&T park happened and the Raiders raided Oakland and now the A's are on the verge of being kicked out. It makes no sense to me why the Giants are one of the 10 richest teams in baseball now and the A's are one of the poorest when they play their games 10 miles away from each other. Have you ever seen another two team market divided in this way?
It just makes no sense.
But anyway, the Giants have been big losers since they came to SF while the A's have been to 6 World Series in that span and won 4 of them. The A's came very close to having a baseball monopoly in Northern California and then PacBell/At&T park happened and the Raiders raided Oakland and now the A's are on the verge of being kicked out. It makes no sense to me why the Giants are one of the 10 richest teams in baseball now and the A's are one of the poorest when they play their games 10 miles away from each other. Have you ever seen another two team market divided in this way?
It just makes no sense.
I don't know that many people who are baseball fans anyway, so I guess I never noticed one way or another. My dad was always a Giants fan though because he likes the National League so that's one possible explanation. The other would be that casual sports fans are more likely to identify with recognizable stars (Jeter, ARod, Bonds) than whoever plays on the local team and the A's don't have a lot of stars these days. When I was growing up I always saw far more basketball jerseys for other team's players (Jordon, Stockton, Barkley, etc) than Kings jerseys. That changed a little bit when the Kings started winning but I moved away then so I don't know if it's like that now.
But anyway, the Giants have been big losers since they came to SF while the A's have been to 6 World Series in that span and won 4 of them. The A's came very close to having a baseball monopoly in Northern California and then PacBell/At&T park happened and the Raiders raided Oakland and now the A's are on the verge of being kicked out. It makes no sense to me why the Giants are one of the 10 richest teams in baseball now and the A's are one of the poorest when they play their games 10 miles away from each other. Have you ever seen another two team market divided in this way?
It just makes no sense.
But anyway, the Giants have been big losers since they came to SF while the A's have been to 6 World Series in that span and won 4 of them. The A's came very close to having a baseball monopoly in Northern California and then PacBell/At&T park happened and the Raiders raided Oakland and now the A's are on the verge of being kicked out. It makes no sense to me why the Giants are one of the 10 richest teams in baseball now and the A's are one of the poorest when they play their games 10 miles away from each other. Have you ever seen another two team market divided in this way?
It just makes no sense.
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I don't know that many people who are baseball fans anyway, so I guess I never noticed one way or another. My dad was always a Giants fan though because he likes the National League so that's one possible explanation. The other would be that casual sports fans are more likely to identify with recognizable stars (Jeter, ARod, Bonds) than whoever plays on the local team and the A's don't have a lot of stars these days. When I was growing up I always saw far more basketball jerseys for other team's players (Jordon, Stockton, Barkley, etc) than Kings jerseys. That changed a little bit when the Kings started winning but I moved away then so I don't know if it's like that now.
But anyway, the Giants have been big losers since they came to SF while the A's have been to 6 World Series in that span and won 4 of them. The A's came very close to having a baseball monopoly in Northern California and then PacBell/At&T park happened and the Raiders raided Oakland and now the A's are on the verge of being kicked out. It makes no sense to me why the Giants are one of the 10 richest teams in baseball now and the A's are one of the poorest when they play their games 10 miles away from each other. Have you ever seen another two team market divided in this way?
It just makes no sense.
But anyway, the Giants have been big losers since they came to SF while the A's have been to 6 World Series in that span and won 4 of them. The A's came very close to having a baseball monopoly in Northern California and then PacBell/At&T park happened and the Raiders raided Oakland and now the A's are on the verge of being kicked out. It makes no sense to me why the Giants are one of the 10 richest teams in baseball now and the A's are one of the poorest when they play their games 10 miles away from each other. Have you ever seen another two team market divided in this way?
It just makes no sense.
As a side note, they don't like me on the A's site. Billy Beane is god there and you dare not say anything bad about him. And please, no Petire comparisons. Petrie has plenty of critics on this fourm.
You're right, it's gotten really bad. Any magic Billy Beane had 10 years ago seems to be in short supply now (though I'll still go see the Moneyball movie). It doesn't help that they have a stadium that's falling apart and an owner that demands cost-cutting and bad mouths the city his team plays in at every opportunity while negotiating deals with other cities. No wait, that's our Sacramento Kings isn't it? 
(The difference being Oakland doesn't appear to have a Kevin Johnson riding in to save the day)
(The difference being Oakland doesn't appear to have a Kevin Johnson riding in to save the day)